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A pair of killer whales face a fight for survival after being abandoned at a French Riviera tourist attraction.
In January of this year, Marineland of Antibes closed its doors due to declining attendance and increased animal captivity regulations in the country after 55 years, yet 23-year-old mother Wikie and 11-year-old son Keijo remain in their slime-covered, festering enclosure, visited only by the management company’s obligatory skeleton staff for feeding purposes, and not much else (via The Mirror).
Tragically, this flies in the face of everything we know about orcas, which are the ocean’s apex predator; highly social, and requiring regular mental stimulation.
Co-founder of activist group Tidebreakers, Marketa Schusterova, claims that the mammals are ‘going to get sick and die’ if they are not transported elsewhere soon.
Two orcas have been abandoned in a rotting French Riviera water park (Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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